Portable feed-rack



(No Model.)

R. I. LAPHAM.

PORTABLE FEED BACK.

No. 457,784. Patented Aug. 18, .1891

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REED I. LAPHAM, OF CLIFTON, MISSOURI.

PORTABLE FEED-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,784, dated August 18, 1891.

Application filed August 2,1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REED I. LAPHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clifton, 1n the county of Schuyler and State of Missonri, have invented a new and useful Portable Feed-Rack, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in portable feed-racks.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive feed-rack adapted to be readily moved from place to place and capable of having its parts readily separated and assembled when desired.

The invention consists of the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the rear or inner end of the tongue.

Referring to the accompanyingdrawings, 1 designates a platform mounted upon runners 2 and composed of longitudinal boards and cross-pieces 3, secured to the lower faces of the boards and projecting beyond the sides of the platform and provided with recesses 4, adapted to receive the lower ends of posts 5 of the side sections 6 of an outer rack, which forms a trough between it and an inner rack 7. The outer rack is composed of the side sections 6 and end sections 8, which has its posts 9 arranged in recesses 10 of end strips 11, secured to the upper face of the platform at the ends thereof; and the said sections 6 and 8 are composed of vertical posts and horizontal bars 12 and 13, and the said end sections 8 are provided with hinged latch-bars 14, provided at their free ends with notches 15, arranged to engage pins 16, extending laterally from the top bars 12 of the side sections 6, and the said sections 6 and S are inclined outward and serve to support each other and may readily be separated by disengaging the latch-bars from the pins 16.

The inner rack is composed of side and end sections 17 and 18, and is adapted to contain feed for cattle, and said sections have their Serial No. 360,787. (No model.)

lower ends secured to the platform and are inclined upward and outward therefrom and consist of posts 19, horizontal bars 20, and verticalslat-s 2 The side sections 17 have the lower ends of their posts 19 gained or stepped in the platform, which is provided with rectangular openings 22, and the crosspieces 3 ofthe platform and cross-bars 23 of the sled are provided with recesses 24 and 25, which communicate or register with the openings of the platform, and their walls are inclined, and they form oppositely-inclined ways to receive the lower ends of the posts of the side sections. The central posts of the end sections have their lower ends arranged in recesses of blocks 27, secured to the upper face of the platform a short distance from the ends thereof. The sections of the inner rack are secured together similar to the sections of the outer rack, and the end sections of the inner rack are provided with hinged latch-bars 28, provided at their free ends with notches 29, arranged to engage pins 30, extending laterally from the upper horizontal bars of the side sections, and the said side sections are braced at their top and the rack prevented spreading laterally by a cross-bar 31, provided at its ends with notches 32, adapted to engage pins 33, extending from the middle posts of the side sections.

Therunners 2 have j ournaled between their ends bars 34,provided with centrally-arranged horizontal slots, which are adapted to receive the rear end 36 of a tongue 37, which end 36 is reduced and provided with a notch 38, arranged to be engaged by a pivoted latch 39, secured to the inner face of the latch-bar, and it will be seen that the tongue 37 can readily be s cured to either end of the platform, thereby avoiding the necessity of turning the feed-rack. The tongue has secured to its inner end a cross-bar 40, which is recessed to receive the tongue and is provided at its ends rable inner rack stepped in the platform and composed of end and side sections, the latchbars hinged to the end sections and engaging the side sections, the removable cross-bar 31, engaging the side sections and bracing and supporting the same, the outer rack composed of separable and removable sections and forming between it and the inner rack a feedtrough, and the latch-barsconnectin g the sections, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the runners, the bars 34, journaled between the ends of the runners and provided with slots or openings 35, the pivoted latches, and the tongue having its rear end adapted to enter the openings or slots 35 and be engaged by the latches, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the runners, the bars 34, journaled between the runners and pro- REED I. LAPHAM.

Witnesses:

L. R. HARBERT, A. N. SEAMsTER. 

